I was pressured into buying a chinese android tablet just as the ipad craze started. Bought it in HK whenon holiday. The spec sounded great but I couldn't really test it properly in store. It was priced the same as the ipad. (around $800 NZD)

got it back to the hotel and found it was a peice of junk, no camera (which I was assured it had) and no android market. very unresponsive, slow, just generally rubbish. by that point it was too late to take it back, not that I could have done anyway because there is no CGA or anything like that in HK

even worse, when I got back to NZ I found dozens of identical tablets selling on trademe for $250. so not only had a bought a peice of junk, I had overpaid by more than 200%

Yeah, I sold the mini-system/player to someone in 2001 (a bigger fool then me?), kept a few discs and went to Japan, to teach English, where the mini-disc actually lived on. Ended up buying a portable recorder/player, renting CDs (yet, legally available at the video store) and copying them to mini-disc on my PS2.

Yeah, I sold the mini-system/player to someone in 2001 (a bigger fool then me?), kept a few discs and went to Japan, to teach English, where the mini-disc actually lived on. Ended up buying a portable recorder/player, renting CDs (yet, legally available at the video store) and copying them to mini-disc on my PS2.

FYI: There was a specific tax on Minidisc devices that had the record function, the tax was paid into some Japanese music industry slush fund - that's why it was legal to rent and copy CDs

But the Palm wasn't a fail. As a product it defined a entire new generation of products, made PDAs popular, introduced new ways of doing things. It was a success. Every PDA and Smartphone today has its roots in the PalmPilot.

I got my first PalmPilot 1000 in 1997 when first released. It was still US Robotics back then.

Did you know PayPal came out on a Palm first so you could transfer money to your friends, then put the PDA in its cradle, press the Hotsync button and have the money sent out?

Poll: Two of those early mp3 players, the usb flash drive sized ones with a tiny lcd and incomprehensible menu, 128 meg and 256 meg, terrible.

I got one of these for my wife a few years ago and we love it.I use it all the time when mowing the lawns and she uses it when going for a walk or run.It's a Samsung 1GB version so can fit quite a bit of music on it and the battery lasts for ages.